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If we exit: the costs, economic and otherwise, of staying in Iraq are terrible. The costs of leaving are much, much worse.

Publication: The American (Washington, DC)
Publication Date: 01-MAY-07 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: If we exit: the costs, economic and otherwise, of staying in Iraq are terrible. The costs of leaving are much, much worse.(GEOPOLITICS)

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A NATIONAL DEBATE rages about the probable aftermath of a precipitous American withdrawal from Iraq. Supporters of the current war insist that a catastrophe would result: mass murder, open sanctuary for al-Qaeda terrorists in the north, an Iranian protectorate in the south, and a beleaguered neighboring Kurdistan subject to invasion threats from Turkey.

If we leave, they say, Shiite Iran would be emboldened to accelerate its acquisition of nuclear weapons, threatening the oil-producing Gulf sheikdoms and Israel. Reform from Lebanon to Libya would halt, as leaders wisely downsized their relationships with a weakened America.

The war's opponents have a different view of what they call American "redeployment" from Iraq. They insist that the damage that would follow would be no worse than that entailed by staying the course, which will cost us tens of billions of dollars and thousands more U.S. lives....

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